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New York Times: From Chile to Lebanon, the World Is Burning (Videos)

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Just a few sparks out there …

Nothing to be concerned about …

Street LARPers have never changed anything …

New York Times:

“LONDON — In Chile, the spark was an increase in subway fares. In Lebanon, it was a tax on WhatsApp calls. The government of Saudi Arabia moved against hookah pipes. In India, it was about onions.

Small pocketbook items became the focus of popular fury across the globe in recent weeks, as frustrated citizens filled the streets for unexpected protests that tapped into a wellspring of bubbling frustration at a class of political elites seen as irredeemably corrupt or hopelessly unjust or both. They followed mass demonstrations in Bolivia, Spain, Iraq and Russia and before that the Czech Republic, Algeria, Sudan and Kazakhstan in what has been a steady drumbeat of unrest over the past few months.

At first glance, many of the demonstrations were linked by little more than tactics. Weeks of unremitting civil disobedience in Hong Kong set the template for a confrontational approach driven by vastly different economic or political demands.

Yet in many of the restive countries, experts discern a pattern: a louder-than-usual howl against elites in countries where democracy is a source of disappointment, corruption is seen as brazen, and a tiny political class lives large while the younger generation struggles to get by.

In Lebanon and Chile, young people are apparently rioting against a hopelessly corrupt and out of touch political class. They were doing that in France for a while as well. The one year anniversary of the Yellow Vest protests is coming up next month and they are hoping to give the cause another whirl. Maybe they will have better luck in the 2020s?

Note: Lebanon seems like an odd place for the white supremacist incel uprising to begin. I thought the movie was about neoliberalism though. Being disaffected and alienated from a world order which only seems to enrich a tiny fraction of society that controls politics is universal.


Source: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2019/10/23/new-york-times-from-chile-to-lebanon-the-world-is-burning/


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